This would all change it greatly. Think about it, we would be modifying humans to be Smarter, be stronger and perhaps even have different personalities. This completely questions our whole perspecive on life for humans, it makes you question if we are really all just "things", it makes you question if you have a soul or a spirit. No spirit? Then is there a heaven? Is there hell? Is there nirvana? Are there gods?
This might bring about havoc, people will start questioning why they are being "good" people when they start to think that there's no pushment in being "bad" and you'll have people hurting others to help themselves and out of control.
This sort of GM I think should only be used when we've reached a point when we've learnt more about our existence.
I think this would be an interesting application for nanotechology. I'm not entirely sure about the receiver's physical properties, but I think it would be in interesting idea to have one large vibrating machine (20 inch dildo? =P), and then have thousands of tinly little robots that have receivers, and you wouldn't have package in a battery.
In an environment where things can float along (ie. space, underwater), you could have larger receivers that are like perhaps made like sales or fins so you can gather even more power.
good idea, but it doesn't seem to have any use other than for high end servers. The per GB price for RAM is high compared to Hard Drives.
Perhaps when it's cheaper it may be more feasible for home users.
You have a point, what I mean is that for there to be the kind of growth that we want, it will need to be even.
Perhaps the term natural was a bad word to choose. The only way I can think of to get this "evolution" to work the way that everyone wants is to do what most people already want their kids to do. That is, to learn, exercise and be polite.
However, regardless to what we do, it seems like 2,000,000 years from now, that what our species will have changed into will be very different from what we are today. I'm going off on a tangent here, but whether it be natural or unnatural, I believe that our decendants will be nothing like us, and that they won't be "human" in our understanding.
Heck, we could end up looking like those aliens in X-Files, big eyes, large head, small nose, mouth and body. It makes sense doesn't it? Logically we would probably move toward being more intellectual (which is encouraged more these days) than athletic. We currently rely on our eyesight a lot, and would make more sense if our eyes evolved and became larger, and everything else would become smaller due to us relying less on smell and taste.
The idea of the ability to increase ones child's IQ is like putting someone on sterioids.
With steriods, they get larger muscles and are generally stronger, but everything else doesn't become stronger to compensate. That is, your joints don't grow stronger and neither does all of the other types of tissue to balance out the growth. This is why a lot of people with sterioids get into lifting accidents, their muscles are strong enough, but not the rest of their body.
So, back to my point, you can't just increase someone's IQ. That person would also need to grow emotionally. Essentially, this would probably result in someone being emotionally unstable. The only true way to improve ourselves that I can think of is good ol' natural evolution, which is slow, but works!
My vision of what will revolutionize computing is the ability of hardware to be non-static. That is, hardware would be able to change itself ( much like the human brain), and theoretically, make EVERYTHING hardware accelerated. You would buy hardware like normal, but what you would actually get would be a little rectangular cube full of goop that goes into something that would represent your motherboard. Then you would have to load the layout itself, and the CPU morph itself and make the correct pathways.
Another related thing would be the memory structure. Right now memory is like one long chain (or a bunch of connected chains). It would be interesting if memory was like water, where you could arrange each unit (a byte I guess) in any pattern you would want, and you would have a sort of "hardware linked list".
I think this change coupled with the new CPU concept would make the languages 100 years from now more powerful, as your hardware would be completely configurable, and you would do more abstract things without having to simulate them.
This could also pave the way to AI, which I believe needs a system where its hardware can change itself almost completely.
Let's hope computers in the future aren't like wives.
That is, your computer will sit there with a general error screen, and then will eventually nag at you saying that you should "know" what's wrong with it without it telling you what's wrong.
First, I'm not a Java lover, however I have grown to respect the language. But, I would never ever want to be coding in it ( just preference and my feeling of lack of control )
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I'm currently a co-op for a wireless handheld device manufacturer (try to guess which one!) and I've learnt that Java, although slow has its merits.
It's publicly known that we use a C/C++ based OS and optimized VM, and then on top of that we have our apps which are written in Java Micro edition.
Although the apps are slower than our older c++ apps, we've found that the scalability really helps. We no longer need to have separate builds for each platform, and third/second party developers don't need to modify their software to have it run on our devices.
It really simplifies things when you don't have to worry about CPU/chipset specific issues and worry about functionality, where the C/C++ guys (I'm in this group) can do all the hardcore work with the hardware.
I'm curious to see what the next few reviews on this book say, as I'm sure some of the Java people here will appreciate it.
I agree that the US government is being a bitch, but you have to be careful in making generalizations. Just because there was a case where a poor law doesn't mean that all are like this.
About your statements:
1: Even if you own something, there are some things that you cannot do with it. Usually there are terms attached to certain purchases. An example of this is buying everquest, and somehow hacking the software such that you don't have to pay the monthly online fees. Generally, if you were to distribute some utility that would allow people who have everquest to go online for free, then you would be committing an illegal act. In this case, an Xbox mod chip might allow you to run DVD-R's with games on them. More indirectly, modding your Xbox to run Linux might cause MS to incurr a minor loss since you may have instead bought a PC (which often come with windows pre-installed) .
2: You're making another generalization here. A baseball bat is made to play baseball, that's the obvious intent. A mod chip is made to modify the manufacturer properties of the Xbox. What you're claiming is that if someone were to buy a gattling gun (or something that's too high power to be purchased even in the U.S. ), that it would be perfectly legal if they were intending to use it as a can opener.
3: Again, take a look at a gattling gun, sure it's mostly used to kill people, but you can't claim that it's ok for someone to have one just because they want to use it as a large dildo.
Why not port this to the Quake3 engine? I mean, it would probably catch on a lot faster if a newer engine was used. Of course, this would make it required for everyone to actually own (or warez) quake3, but imagine those strippers in hi-res! (assuming someone spent a few hours grabbing high res pics off the net and importing them)
Windows media player isn't part of office.
How "entertaining" it would be for that annoying paperclip to pop up in the middle of the movie and give its little own critique on the movie.
Yeah, but who has the money to build a robot that would do this precisely enough? Imagine the development for such a thing, having it respond quickly enough would involve writing custom drivers. The cost would be tremendous, and the payoff would probably take too long.
The kind of payoff I'm referring to here is along the lines of 100 dollars a month, not like $10,000 per month to cover such a project.
I thought it would be interesting if one took a full tower, and took up 3-4 of the drive bays and turned them into a fridge. You could probably fit fit 6 pop cans in it. No more need to get up from your chair to go grab a drink!
Most cheaters never prosper, that being because they're usually shunned, and they often just get bored of the game and leave, since where's the fun if there's no challenge?
Sure, you could get an hours worth of kicks out of hit at maximum, but there's a good chance you'd just get bored and leave.
However, there's a big twist here, that new gaming site, YouPlayGames may bring cheating to a whole new level. I've seen how crazy people get in Tournements, how they whine and bitch and some of them try to bend the rules, but at least in Tournements things are monitored. In this service, all you have is a bet, and there probably isn't any monitoring done (and even if you recorded the game, I'm sure your opponent could hide his cheating if he knew how to do it right and make it look natural). Since there is money involved, the cheaters will have a new reason to play, and that is for money. This will be a greater drive for people to implement more complex hacks, that make say, an AimBot look like the same sort of aim present in CAL-i CS players.
First, the idea of stealing something is controversial, it depends how you define it.
I personally define stealing as taking something that someone has, or taking something that someone WILL have in the future as a payment (ie. cash) for something they did now or in the present. I know there are exceptions to this, but use some common sense.
Secondly, the idea of whether stealing is right or wrong is another controversy. I personally believe that it isn't wrong if you weren't planning to buy whatever it was anyway, whether it be a crappy video game or a $10,000 3D rendering application that you could never afford. However, if it is something that you can afford, and also like or are using it on a regular basis, then I think it would be wrong to not buy it. An example of this is if you got a pirated version of a good video game, if you like it, then I believe you should go out and buy it, more so as a gratuity for making such a good game. The same applies to softare you can actually afford, like Nero or some of those cheaper apps, and not like the Professional Apps like Photoshop (not the LE version, which lacks almost everything and those trial/learning versions that put watermarks, and sort of ruin your hobbyist creations).
My whole opinion on this, more specifically music is that I do believe that some of these artists are getting ripped off. There are people who download their MP3's and don't have their CD's nor do they plan to buy their CD's.
People are cheap in general. They wont spend money on something if they know they can get it for free, even if it's illegal and safe. It's all opportunistic, I'm sure most people would go steal cars from an Aston Martin dealer if there was a 0.0001% change that the law would get involved.
I say the best way to make this new Napster work is to attack sources where people can get free music. By this I'm referring to IRC and Kazaa, which I hear is having it's own legal problems.
On top of that, it's hard to get rid of LAN sharing, at say a university residence, where there are 700 students all connected and accessible, and you can get basically any song you want. Even if getting music off the net is difficiult, people are bound to rip their songs off their CD's and share them on the network.
I really don't think music ripping and warez will go away until there is some sort of water tight security system on the net, but then doing that would probably violate the whole concept of the internet.
I just wonder how bad warez and music ripping will be 20 years from now.
I think this is a great idea. If one could extend this idea into maybe a CDRW-ROM allowing a lot of writes or perhaps even a DVDRW-ROM. This way for game consoles, you can actually save your game without the need of a Hard Drive (XBox) or a memory card.
This might bring back some of the concepts that were promised by the cancelled (in US) N64 DD, allowing a game to be very changeable. Imagine an RPG like this, like where a lot more of the scenery can change, you slash your sword along a wall, turn off the console, load it up again the next day and you'll still see a little mark on that same wall.
More so, in an RPG like game, there would be even more interactivity, like where you can change entire landscapes with your "magical" powers. This is something that would be hard to do on a game console, even with an 8 gig HD which I doubt developers would want to be half full because of one game.
I'm curious how expensive this technology would be though.
I've always thought that the way windows update worked was by sending information to a microsoft server, having the server find out what you need and render the appropriate download page, and then toss the data that it got from you.
I don't see any other way that Microsoft would be getting away with this without the use of some incredibly silly legal loophole.
Hmm, insects.. a blueprint for a deadly worm?
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Reading the article, I was just thinking how deadly a worm that was based on how a colony of wasps or ants would behave.
Considering wasps and ant's don't have extremely complex brains, all someone with malicious intent would do is to give it a basic behavior and how to interact with other worms it might encounter and how to share information with one another.
I have a feeling I'm completely out of date here, I'm not too up to date with the worms of today and even yesterday, and perhaps something like this has been set loose and/or killed.
Great... all we need now is Microsoft Moon Colony XP. And of course, the only way to get to "Microsoft Moon Colony XP" would be to use "Microsoft Shuttle XP", which would have a malfunction and fly you to Pluto on certain occasions.
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This would all change it greatly. Think about it, we would be modifying humans to be Smarter, be stronger and perhaps even have different personalities.
This completely questions our whole perspecive on life for humans, it makes you question if we are really all just "things", it makes you question if you have a soul or a spirit. No spirit? Then is there a heaven? Is there hell? Is there nirvana? Are there gods?
This might bring about havoc, people will start questioning why they are being "good" people when they start to think that there's no pushment in being "bad" and you'll have people hurting others to help themselves and out of control.
This sort of GM I think should only be used when we've reached a point when we've learnt more about our existence.
Those mirrors on the vertical keyboard should have some small fineprint saying:
"keys in mirror are closer than they appear"
When mommies and daddies love each other very much, they get together and.......................
I think this would be an interesting application for nanotechology.
I'm not entirely sure about the receiver's physical properties, but I think it would be in interesting idea to have one large vibrating machine (20 inch dildo? =P), and then have thousands of tinly little robots that have receivers, and you wouldn't have package in a battery.
In an environment where things can float along (ie. space, underwater), you could have larger receivers that are like perhaps made like sales or fins so you can gather even more power.
good idea, but it doesn't seem to have any use other than for high end servers. The per GB price for RAM is high compared to Hard Drives.
Perhaps when it's cheaper it may be more feasible for home users.
Why does this remind me of two young kids in the playground, with one whining:
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"It was mine first, give it back!"
"Nuh uh, you gave it to me!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
You have a point, what I mean is that for there to be the kind of growth that we want, it will need to be even.
Perhaps the term natural was a bad word to choose. The only way I can think of to get this "evolution" to work the way that everyone wants is to do what most people already want their kids to do. That is, to learn, exercise and be polite.
However, regardless to what we do, it seems like 2,000,000 years from now, that what our species will have changed into will be very different from what we are today. I'm going off on a tangent here, but whether it be natural or unnatural, I believe that our decendants will be nothing like us, and that they won't be "human" in our understanding.
Heck, we could end up looking like those aliens in X-Files, big eyes, large head, small nose, mouth and body. It makes sense doesn't it? Logically we would probably move toward being more intellectual (which is encouraged more these days) than athletic. We currently rely on our eyesight a lot, and would make more sense if our eyes evolved and became larger, and everything else would become smaller due to us relying less on smell and taste.
The idea of the ability to increase ones child's IQ is like putting someone on sterioids.
With steriods, they get larger muscles and are generally stronger, but everything else doesn't become stronger to compensate. That is, your joints don't grow stronger and neither does all of the other types of tissue to balance out the growth. This is why a lot of people with sterioids get into lifting accidents, their muscles are strong enough, but not the rest of their body.
So, back to my point, you can't just increase someone's IQ. That person would also need to grow emotionally. Essentially, this would probably result in someone being emotionally unstable. The only true way to improve ourselves that I can think of is good ol' natural evolution, which is slow, but works!
Smaller Drives -> easier to hide pr0n.
Would be cool if these drives were like flash cards, where you could actually use them like disks.
My vision of what will revolutionize computing is the ability of hardware to be non-static. That is, hardware would be able to change itself ( much like the human brain), and theoretically, make EVERYTHING hardware accelerated.
You would buy hardware like normal, but what you would actually get would be a little rectangular cube full of goop that goes into something that would represent your motherboard. Then you would have to load the layout itself, and the CPU morph itself and make the correct pathways.
Another related thing would be the memory structure. Right now memory is like one long chain (or a bunch of connected chains). It would be interesting if memory was like water, where you could arrange each unit (a byte I guess) in any pattern you would want, and you would have a sort of "hardware linked list".
I think this change coupled with the new CPU concept would make the languages 100 years from now more powerful, as your hardware would be completely configurable, and you would do more abstract things without having to simulate them.
This could also pave the way to AI, which I believe needs a system where its hardware can change itself almost completely.
Let's hope computers in the future aren't like wives.
That is, your computer will sit there with a general error screen, and then will eventually nag at you saying that you should "know" what's wrong with it without it telling you what's wrong.
First, I'm not a Java lover, however I have grown to respect the language. But, I would never ever want to be coding in it ( just preference and my feeling of lack of control ) . I'm currently a co-op for a wireless handheld device manufacturer (try to guess which one!) and I've learnt that Java, although slow has its merits. It's publicly known that we use a C/C++ based OS and optimized VM, and then on top of that we have our apps which are written in Java Micro edition. Although the apps are slower than our older c++ apps, we've found that the scalability really helps. We no longer need to have separate builds for each platform, and third/second party developers don't need to modify their software to have it run on our devices. It really simplifies things when you don't have to worry about CPU/chipset specific issues and worry about functionality, where the C/C++ guys (I'm in this group) can do all the hardcore work with the hardware. I'm curious to see what the next few reviews on this book say, as I'm sure some of the Java people here will appreciate it.
I agree that the US government is being a bitch, but you have to be careful in making generalizations. Just because there was a case where a poor law doesn't mean that all are like this. About your statements: 1: Even if you own something, there are some things that you cannot do with it. Usually there are terms attached to certain purchases. An example of this is buying everquest, and somehow hacking the software such that you don't have to pay the monthly online fees. Generally, if you were to distribute some utility that would allow people who have everquest to go online for free, then you would be committing an illegal act. In this case, an Xbox mod chip might allow you to run DVD-R's with games on them. More indirectly, modding your Xbox to run Linux might cause MS to incurr a minor loss since you may have instead bought a PC (which often come with windows pre-installed) . 2: You're making another generalization here. A baseball bat is made to play baseball, that's the obvious intent. A mod chip is made to modify the manufacturer properties of the Xbox. What you're claiming is that if someone were to buy a gattling gun (or something that's too high power to be purchased even in the U.S. ), that it would be perfectly legal if they were intending to use it as a can opener. 3: Again, take a look at a gattling gun, sure it's mostly used to kill people, but you can't claim that it's ok for someone to have one just because they want to use it as a large dildo.
Why not port this to the Quake3 engine? I mean, it would probably catch on a lot faster if a newer engine was used.
Of course, this would make it required for everyone to actually own (or warez) quake3, but imagine those strippers in hi-res! (assuming someone spent a few hours grabbing high res pics off the net and importing them)
Windows media player isn't part of office. How "entertaining" it would be for that annoying paperclip to pop up in the middle of the movie and give its little own critique on the movie.
Yeah, but who has the money to build a robot that would do this precisely enough? Imagine the development for such a thing, having it respond quickly enough would involve writing custom drivers. The cost would be tremendous, and the payoff would probably take too long.
The kind of payoff I'm referring to here is along the lines of 100 dollars a month, not like $10,000 per month to cover such a project.
I thought it would be interesting if one took a full tower, and took up 3-4 of the drive bays and turned them into a fridge. You could probably fit fit 6 pop cans in it. No more need to get up from your chair to go grab a drink!
Most cheaters never prosper, that being because they're usually shunned, and they often just get bored of the game and leave, since where's the fun if there's no challenge?
Sure, you could get an hours worth of kicks out of hit at maximum, but there's a good chance you'd just get bored and leave.
However, there's a big twist here, that new gaming site, YouPlayGames may bring cheating to a whole new level. I've seen how crazy people get in Tournements, how they whine and bitch and some of them try to bend the rules, but at least in Tournements things are monitored. In this service, all you have is a bet, and there probably isn't any monitoring done (and even if you recorded the game, I'm sure your opponent could hide his cheating if he knew how to do it right and make it look natural). Since there is money involved, the cheaters will have a new reason to play, and that is for money. This will be a greater drive for people to implement more complex hacks, that make say, an AimBot look like the same sort of aim present in CAL-i CS players.
First, the idea of stealing something is controversial, it depends how you define it. I personally define stealing as taking something that someone has, or taking something that someone WILL have in the future as a payment (ie. cash) for something they did now or in the present. I know there are exceptions to this, but use some common sense. Secondly, the idea of whether stealing is right or wrong is another controversy. I personally believe that it isn't wrong if you weren't planning to buy whatever it was anyway, whether it be a crappy video game or a $10,000 3D rendering application that you could never afford. However, if it is something that you can afford, and also like or are using it on a regular basis, then I think it would be wrong to not buy it. An example of this is if you got a pirated version of a good video game, if you like it, then I believe you should go out and buy it, more so as a gratuity for making such a good game. The same applies to softare you can actually afford, like Nero or some of those cheaper apps, and not like the Professional Apps like Photoshop (not the LE version, which lacks almost everything and those trial/learning versions that put watermarks, and sort of ruin your hobbyist creations). My whole opinion on this, more specifically music is that I do believe that some of these artists are getting ripped off. There are people who download their MP3's and don't have their CD's nor do they plan to buy their CD's.
People are cheap in general. They wont spend money on something if they know they can get it for free, even if it's illegal and safe. It's all opportunistic, I'm sure most people would go steal cars from an Aston Martin dealer if there was a 0.0001% change that the law would get involved. I say the best way to make this new Napster work is to attack sources where people can get free music. By this I'm referring to IRC and Kazaa, which I hear is having it's own legal problems. On top of that, it's hard to get rid of LAN sharing, at say a university residence, where there are 700 students all connected and accessible, and you can get basically any song you want. Even if getting music off the net is difficiult, people are bound to rip their songs off their CD's and share them on the network. I really don't think music ripping and warez will go away until there is some sort of water tight security system on the net, but then doing that would probably violate the whole concept of the internet. I just wonder how bad warez and music ripping will be 20 years from now.
I think this is a great idea. If one could extend this idea into maybe a CDRW-ROM allowing a lot of writes or perhaps even a DVDRW-ROM. This way for game consoles, you can actually save your game without the need of a Hard Drive (XBox) or a memory card. This might bring back some of the concepts that were promised by the cancelled (in US) N64 DD, allowing a game to be very changeable. Imagine an RPG like this, like where a lot more of the scenery can change, you slash your sword along a wall, turn off the console, load it up again the next day and you'll still see a little mark on that same wall. More so, in an RPG like game, there would be even more interactivity, like where you can change entire landscapes with your "magical" powers. This is something that would be hard to do on a game console, even with an 8 gig HD which I doubt developers would want to be half full because of one game. I'm curious how expensive this technology would be though.
I've always thought that the way windows update worked was by sending information to a microsoft server, having the server find out what you need and render the appropriate download page, and then toss the data that it got from you. I don't see any other way that Microsoft would be getting away with this without the use of some incredibly silly legal loophole.
Reading the article, I was just thinking how deadly a worm that was based on how a colony of wasps or ants would behave. Considering wasps and ant's don't have extremely complex brains, all someone with malicious intent would do is to give it a basic behavior and how to interact with other worms it might encounter and how to share information with one another. I have a feeling I'm completely out of date here, I'm not too up to date with the worms of today and even yesterday, and perhaps something like this has been set loose and/or killed.
Great... all we need now is Microsoft Moon Colony XP. And of course, the only way to get to "Microsoft Moon Colony XP" would be to use "Microsoft Shuttle XP", which would have a malfunction and fly you to Pluto on certain occasions.